Employment Essentials

Gowling WLG's employment, labour & equalities experts pick October's top five employment law developments that may affect your business.

• Budget 2018 Employment implications: the what and when
• Whistleblowing: NEDs personally liable to whistleblower for post dismissal losses
• Employer's vicarious liability in the 21st century
• Disability discrimination: job description not in itself a PCP
• Consultation on ethnicity pay reporting

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Gowling WLG's employment, labour & equalities experts bring you the latest top five employment law developments that may affect your business from a continuing rise in tribunal claim numbers to a galaxy far, far away…

1. Tribunal claim numbers beginning to return to pre-fees levels
2. Victimisation and the bad faith defence
3. Only temporary workers protected under the AWR
4. Post transfer change held not related to the transfer
5. A reference from a galaxy far, far away…

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There was a significant change to the tax treatment of payments in lieu of notice on 6 April 2018. This podcast looks at the effect of the post-employment notice pay (PENP) change, the impact on the £30,000 tax free exemption and other tax developments. What should employers be doing? What do employers need to be aware of and what are the pitfalls?

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This podcast focuses on some of the issues and risks surrounding sexual harassment in the workplace, especially in light of publicity around allegations of sexual harassment by senior individuals, recent social media campaigns and non disclosure agreements (NDAs).

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Gowling WLG's employment, labour & equalities experts bring you the latest top five employment law developments that may affect your business.

1. Sleeping on the job & NMW take 2
2. Beyond belief: commercial concern not a philosophical belief
3. Vanishing act: successful internal appeal makes dismissal vanish, but take care in communicating decision
4. Time shifting: when do statutory notice periods need to be added to qualifying service for an unfair dismissal claim?
5. Home Office launches toolkit for employers to support EU Settlement Scheme

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In this podcast we are discuss some of latest developments in unfair dismissal from the initial stages of suspension, right through the investigation and ultimately to dismissal.

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There are some tricky issues relating to recruitment arising out of the introduction of the new GDPR rules, which came into force on 25 May 2018. This podcast looks at the impact of the GDPR on pre-employment medicals, criminal convictions and equal opportunities monitoring.

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Gowling WLG's employment, labour & equalities experts bring you the latest top five employment law developments that may affect your business.

1. 'Mutuality of obligation' and employment status – what does it matter?
2. Whistleblowing: what amounts to disclosure of 'information'
3. Dismissing an employee for failing to prove a continued right to work and the right to appeal
4. Suspensions and zero-hour contracts: avoid an own goal
5. Misconduct does need to necessarily amount to gross misconduct for a fair dismissal

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In City of York Council v Grosset, the Court of Appeal has explored the nature of discrimination arising from disability and how it fits with both unfair dismissal and the duty to make reasonable adjustments.

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In May we have another significant development in the growing body of case law concerning discrimination arising from disability increasing the potential for employers to fall foul of this legal concept, a reminder of where we are now on third party harassment, dress codes and zero hours contracts and of course the most 'e-mailed' about legal development of recent years, the coming into force of the GDPR.

Here, our employment law experts bring you the key developments from May and explain how they might impact your business.

1. Discrimination arising from disability: knowledge of consequences of disability not required
2. Government guidance on dress codes a bit too back to basics.
3. Can an employer's inaction in the face of third party harassment itself amount to harassment?
4. Zero-hours employee employed on 'same type of contract' as full-time comparator?
5. The GDPR and new Data Protection Act 2018 have arrived.

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